"Africa's relationship with photography is not straightforward. It is a long story." Identités entrevues: Visage d'Afrique is the title of Bruno Cogez's 1999 exhibition at the Espace Génériques in Paris. It included sixty individual and group portraits in black and white, taken during his travels in West Africa (Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo and Benin) between 1994 and 1999. The photos are accompanied by extracts from African literature as well as from the photographer's notebook. The series was inspired by an essay by Bernard Mouralis.« less